Word: nonpartisans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea was that Joe Martin Day would be a strictly nonpartisan affair, just a home-district celebration by Fall River's citizens to show homespun Speaker of the House Joe Martin "the pride and affection they feel in him by virtue of the high office he has attained." The plan had been conceived by William S. Canning, a movie-chain manager, a Democrat, and Fall River's most zealous booster. Canning was well aware that Joe had carried strongly Democratic Fall River only once in the last 22 years...
...down what the U.S. could and should do, Harry Truman this week created three committees: 1) a Government committee under Interior Secretary Krug to tabulate national resources, 2) another Government committee to assess the effect on the U.S. economy of aid to others, and 3) a nonpartisan committee of 19 citizens to make foreign aid recommendations to the White House in the light of the facts...
Since taking office last month as the only "nonpartisan" member of the new leftist government, 47-year-old Minister Wachholtz has pushed a policy that denies credit for all but industrial purposes. The left has stood by him because the poorer classes have been almost untouched, at least to start with, by his deflationary decrees. But middle-class shopkeepers, who need credit to stay in business, have been hard hit, and some real-estate speculators and stockmarket operators have lost heavily...
...China's National Assembly, five middle-aged men waited in the reception room of a snug, red brick house in Nanking. Five nonpartisan moderates, they had come-in a political atmosphere taut as a ripe boil-to seek audience with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, at his home...
...people Secretary Byrnes's speech was a sharp reminder, in the midst of the congressional election campaign, that the nonpartisan business of making a peace was quite as important as the meat shortage and partisan squabbles. Another pointed reminder, and a warning, came from the man who had done most to make U.S. policy nonpartisan-Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur H.Vandenburg...